Former Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Klein has thrown his enthusiastic support behind his former law clerk Katherine Leonard as Gov. Linda Lingle’s nominee to be Hawai’i’s first woman chief justice. Klein, who was appointed to the court by former Gov. John Waihee and is now in private practice, issued a statement that he “completely [...]
Archive for July 2010
Leonard gets key endorsement
July 31, 2010flASHback alert
July 31, 2010Today’s flASHback column in the Star-Advertiser: “Hannemann sticks to transit during hopeful transition.”
Old friends bow out
July 30, 2010Today is a most significant day in local newspaper history with the retirement from the Star-Advertiser of Helen Altonn, Mary Adamski and Ben Wood, giants of our business who among them have nearly 150 years of experience covering some of Hawai’i’s biggest stories since statehood. As best as I can recall, they are the only [...]
What’s Lingle’s Legacy?
July 28, 2010While many politicians get all “aw, shucks” when talking about their legacy and say it’ll take care of itself, Gov. Linda Lingle obviously takes this stuff very seriously. I drew a bit of blood in a way I hadn’t intended when I said in my column today about her appointment of Katherine Leonard as chief [...]
CJ nominee Katherine Leonard faces the first blades
July 28, 2010The knives are starting to come out on Gov. Linda Lingle’s nomination of Katherine Leonard to be new chief justice of the state Supreme Court, but so far the cuts have only been surface wounds. Attorney Eric Seitz struck the first public blow with a letter to the Hawaii State Bar Association urging opposition when [...]
Mufi embraces Superferry
July 27, 2010An intriguing part of Mufi Hannemann’s economic plan in his campaign for governor is a proposal to bring the Superferry back to Hawai’i. He didn’t flesh out the idea, saying only, “Restore the Superferry. Do it right with environmental protections and an EIS. Don’t waste the taxpayers’ investment.” As appealing as it may seem to [...]
Do or die for Hawai’i GOP
July 26, 2010State Republican Chairman Jonah Ka’auwai is making some good moves in trying to dig back from the GOP’s disastrous 2008 legislative elections, when the party failed to field candidates in 40 percent of the races and ended up with an irrelevant minority of six of 51 House seats and two of 25 Senate seats. Ka’auwai [...]
flASHback alert
July 24, 2010Today’s flASHback column in the Star-Advertiser: “Candidates are off and running into squabbles.”
The LG balancing act
July 23, 2010Most of the discussion here on the lieutenant governor’s race has been filtered through the lens of HB 444, which I doubt is how the majority of the electorate looks at it. People tend to judge candidates for the No. 2 job based on which they like or don’t like on a broader range of [...]
No need to delay mayoral election
July 21, 2010The City Council has scheduled a meeting Thursday to decide whether to call a special mayoral election to replace Mufi Hannemann in the Sept. 18 primary election or wait until the general election Nov. 2, but there really shouldn’t be much to decide. The last time there was a similar vacancy in 1994, the special [...]
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